Kate Aronoff

Kate Aronoff is a fellow at Type Media Center, a Brooklyn-based writer covering climate and American politics, and a contributing writer to The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Dissent, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Harpers, among other outlets. She was previously a writing fellow at In These Times. Kate is editing a forthcoming anthology about democratic socialism in America, set to be published by The New Press in 2020. She is also writing a book about the politics of climate change, The New Denialism, to be published by Bold Type Books, also in 2020.
Recent Highlights

Climate Change’s Great Lithium Problem
The crisis in Bolivia has an urgent message for environmental policy in the United States.
By Kate Aronoff in The New Republic.

We Need a Green Bailout for the People
Here’s what the government should demand when the economy tumbles and Wall Street comes begging.
By Kate Aronoff in The Nation.

Things Are Bleak!
Jonathan Safran Foer’s quest for planetary salvation.
By Kate Aronoff in The Nation.

We need to Talk About Hunter Biden
The growing scandal around Ukraine shows a Biden nomination would be a big gamble – one Democrats would be foolish to make.
By Kate Aronoff in The Guardian.

Thunberg Is Right
Congress is ignoring science—and that includes Democrats.
By Kate Aronoff in The Guardian.

How Much Destruction Is Needed for Us to Take Climate Change Seriously?
Whether human civilization stays intact amid this worsening weather depends on recognizing our shared humanity — and designing policy accordingly.
By Kate Aronoff in the Guardian.

Bernie Sanders’s Climate Plan Is More Radical Than His Opponents’ — and More Likely to Succeed
If you tried to design a program with the aim of offending the top brass of the world’s most powerful corporations, you’d get something like Bernie Sanders’s Green New Deal platform.
By Kate Aronoff in the Intercept.

Some Economists Say Carbon Taxes Are a Silver Bullet. The Reality Is More Complicated.
A carbon tax isn’t a bad idea, but by itself could be politically dangerous.
By Kate Aronoff in In These Times.

An Interview with Yanis Varoufakis

The Democratic Field Is Crowded With C-listers
Relative nobodies like John Delaney and John Hickenlooper have taken up more airtime than the climate crisis during the debates. We deserve better.
By Kate Aronoff in the Guardian.
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